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Today’s Superhero Films Are The New Monster Movies
Superheroes today are more akin to horror-movie monsters than the inspiring comic-book icons of yesteryear.
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Superman Before Batman: On Ben Affleck and “Hollywoodland”
On the eve of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," Kenji Fujishima looks back at Ben Affleck's work as a TV Superman in "Hollywoodland."
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The Marvel-Industrial Complex
"Pity the land without heroes!"
"No, pity the land that needs them." —Bertolt Brecht, Galileo
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As inconceivable as it seems, 2008's Iron Man was, at the time, a mortgage-the-farm gamble for Marvel Comics, who was tired of watching film studios like Fox (Th...
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Should Superhero Films be Animated Instead?
With the latest trailer of Big Hero 6, another superhero movie has entered the fray, though this time it will be fully animated, as compared to ongoing trend of having these comic book creations filmed in live-action. But as more and more superhero story lines...
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“Batman v Superman: Colon: Subtitle: Etc”
Zack Snyder's Batman vs. Superman movie now has a full title, and Twitter loves it! Or rather, everyone on Twitter loves to make jokes about it. The real title is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, an unsurprisingly nonsensical choice. Here are some of my fav...
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For Your Reconsideration: ‘Man of Steel’
A funny thing happened this summer. A new Zack Snyder film landed, though this one had immensely more favorable pre-release buzz than any of the director’s previous efforts. The trailers all landed with considerably positive feedback, and everything about the ...
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Easy Movie Costumes for Halloween
Halloween is just a day away and, for choosy movie buffs, picking which character to be is a difficult decision. Fandango amassed some survey data for what the most popular costumes for this year would likely be and the big winners are unsurprisingly featured ...
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Existimatum Wants to Grade Your Reviews
Hear that? The sound of nails being slowly dragged along a chalkboard? It's your reviews being reviewed by a new website, Existimatum.
The site, founded by Peter Kern, "was to make a site that combined the satire of the The Onion with the usefulness of Rott...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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Death by Hype, Hall H, and How James Mangold’s ‘The Wolverine’ Changed the Game
After Pacific Rim was released a few weeks ago it seemed to signal the peak of the summer blockbuster season. Pacific Rim was the last in a seemingly endless line of multimillion dollar films that the various studios have been promoting and cinephiles have bee...
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